Shipping container



Feb. 6, 1945.

SHIPPING CONTAINER Filed March 8, 1945 Im/ento F. o. WRIGHT 2,369,099

Patented Feb. 6, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHIPPING CONTAINER Frank 0. Wright, Memphis, Tenn. Application March 8, 1943, Serial No. 478,389

1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in shipping containers and like receptacles, the principal object being to construct a container or receptacle of plywood and sufiiciently strong and durable to permit the transportation therein of lack and other heavy materials.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a container structure divided into upper and lower nected to the end that the sections can be stored by being inter-nested in a very limited space.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent to the reader of the following description.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a top plan view of a basket type of I container. I

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary detailed sectional view showing the top and retainin band about to be applied. Referring to the drawing, wherein like numeral designate like parts, there is disclosed a sections which can be readily disconbasket-type container embodying one form of this inventive concept and comprising an inverted frustro-conical-shaped side Wall 50 made up of plie 5|, 52 and 53 suitably secured at the lower ends to a fixed bottom 54.

The upper edges of the plies 5|, 52 and 53 are slit as at 55, these slits being staggered so that they do not horizontally register. The purpose of these slits is, of course, to permit fiexation of r the upper edge portion of the side Wall 50.

The slits serve to define tongues 56, the tongues of the innermost ply 5| each having upper and lower cleats 51, 58. 1

Numeral 59 denotes a contracting band for the upper portion of the wall 50, while numeral 60 denotes a top for the basket type container.

' It can now be een, that normally the upper edge portion of the wall 5| flares in the manner shown in Figure 3 so that the top can readily be placed in position between the upper "and lower cleats 51, 58. The contracting band 59 can now be worked upwardly on the wall 511 so as .to contract the upper edge portion of the wall 5|! and bring the cleats 51, 58 into overlapping relation with the top and bottom sides of the top 60, thus firmly securing the top to the container. While the foregoing specification sets forth the invention in specific terms, it is to be understood that numerous changes in the shape, size and materials may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as sion being provided with a pair of longitudinally spaced abutments thereon, a closure, the inner circumferential row of abutments defining a. circle of a diameter less than that of the closure,

the outer circumferential row of abutments' defining a circle having a diameter greater than the diameter of the closure to permit placement of the peripheral portion of the closure against the inner rowof abutments preparatory to closing the barrel, and a slip ring of a diameter less than thecircumference of the barrel at the finger extensions, said ring being adapted to be slid to a position contracting the finger extensions toward the periphery of the closure to maintain the rows of abutments on opposite sides of the FRANK O. -WRIGHT. 

